Anglo-Filles

Welcome to episode 48 in which Les Filles discuss their recently read, currently reading, and TBR piles. Set your wallets to Amazon, because we are about to add a whole bunch of books to your wishlist.

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All covers link to the Amazon page.

Charlotte Bronte: A Fiery Heart by Claire Harman.

How the Brontës Came Out As Women – excerpt from the book.

Dude Watchin’ With the Brontes – Hark, a vagrant 202 by Kate Beaton.

Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier

Have you read any of the Amelia Peabody series by Elizabeth Peters? Let us know what you think!

Trumpet by Jackie Kay

A Square Meal: A Culinary History of the Great Depression by by Jane Ziegelman and Andrew Coe

Redheadedgirl’s Historical Kitchen entries on SmartBitchesTrashyBooks.com.

Bess Crawford Mysteries

Secrets of Nanreath Hall

The Fair Fight by Anna Freeman

Sarah Waters, author of Tipping the Velvet, Fingersmith, The Paying Guests, and more.

The Crimson Petal and the White by Michel Faber.

The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern

The Gargoyle by Andrew Davidson

Tampa by Alissa Nutting

Girls on Fire by Robin Wasserman (linking to the UK Amazon site to showcase the cover discussed in the episode, the US cover is different)

Thank you to everyone who tweeted their current reads at us! To see the tweets we read in the episode so you can get the titles of the books, click here.

So little happened before, around, and during Rio 2016 that it was barely worth talking about. Don’t believe us? Just listen to this 2-hour episode in which Les Filles find absolutely nothing noteworthy to discuss. Well, maybe some people did well in gymnastics and others swam really, really fast, but it’s not like there were green pools, doping scandals, and a government in turmoil.

We would like to have a header image for this episode, but the IOC and/or NBC would sue us. Instead, imagine in this space some number of geometric shapes in some variety of colour.

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First thing first, the Mongolian coaches stripping happened literally as we wrapped up recording. It was a strange yet fitting cap to what was a somewhat strange and unsettling Olympic games.

Rio Olympics: Ibtihaj Muhammad Is America’s Olympic Game Changer

41-year-old Oksana Chusovitina may be the most incredible athlete at the Olympics

Here’s The Real Reason We Love Watching Olympic Gymnastics

Gymnastics Hair: A Retrospective

By ‘packaging’ the Olympics, NBC insults viewers, and the athletes themselves

Budget Failures, Displacement, Zika—Welcome to Rio’s $11.9B Summer Olympics

The Fug Girls did not slack off on Olympic coverage

Welcome to episode 46, wherein Les Filles reminisce about the books, TV, and movies that made these girls go geek. News out of ComicCon was discussed briefly, Ghostbusters was reviewed emotionally, and, rest assured, Pokemon Go was played throughout the recording, albeit silently. Not so silent were a laptop fan (it’s was hot!) and a nose-blowing husband.

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Maya, who joined us on episode 25, went to SDCC and did not pull any punches.

Me: “How do you deal with the misconception that scientists are all white men…like this panel”

— ppyajunebug, phd (@ppyajunebug) July 21, 2016

Kids get the best adventure books: Tomek Wilmowski; The Boxcar Children; A Wrinkle in Time.

The best place to indulge your Sweet Valley High nostalgia (or curiousity), Shannon’s Sweet Valley Blog

Mads Mikkelsen with a moominplushie. I want it.

Maid Marian and Her Merry Men

Welcome to episode 45, in which one of the Filles went to Sweden, another survived the Brexit referendum, and the third lives in blissfully boring Canada. Also discussed are the Tonys and summer movie releases.

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The view from our air b&b, jarnstorg, Gamla Stan. #SmartBitchesinSweden

A photo posted by @redheadedgirl_sb on Jun 17, 2016 at 8:20pm PDT

Saffron and honey ice cream. I make good choices. #SmartBitchesinSweden

A photo posted by @redheadedgirl_sb on Jun 23, 2016 at 1:02pm PDT

Click here to see a review of the documentary Secrets of Great British Castles, hopefully available on Netflix or other streaming services to all of our listeners.

There’s no shortage of articles on Brexit and its consequences and probably most people’s local media is covering it, too. Comments and let us know what your local coverage looks like, we’d love to know!

Canada is taking the first of baby steps to fix its somewhat broken system with the electoral reform committee.

You do not need our help to Google for photos of Alexander Skarsgard (umlauts are the first casualties of laziness), but here are some favourites:

And as a bonus, a still from Love & Friendship. Aren’t these costumes gorgeous?